Hi all, I know it is recommended by many to always make a separate mount point for /home. However, I notice that in migrating from suse 8.2 to 9.3, the mail folders in kde have changed from /home/user/Mail to /home/user/.kde/share... How does suse/kde handle this if I keep my same older /home dir as is from the 8.2 install, but access it from the 9.3 install? TIA Jim Flanagan linuxjim at jjfiii dot com
On Saturday 04 June 2005 01:23 pm, Jim Flanagan wrote:
Hi all,
I know it is recommended by many to always make a separate mount point for /home. However, I notice that in migrating from suse 8.2 to 9.3, the mail folders in kde have changed from /home/user/Mail to /home/user/.kde/share...
Eh? It's not that way on my system... Mail is still ~/Mail
How does suse/kde handle this if I keep my same older /home dir as is from the 8.2 install, but access it from the 9.3 install?
TIA Jim Flanagan linuxjim at jjfiii dot com
On Saturday 04 June 2005 13:23, Jim Flanagan wrote:
Hi all,
I know it is recommended by many to always make a separate mount point for /home. However, I notice that in migrating from suse 8.2 to 9.3, the mail folders in kde have changed from /home/user/Mail to /home/user/.kde/share...
What mail client are you referring to? I can only assume you're referring to kmail since you specified kde. If that's the case, then your statement is incorrect. Your mail folders are still /home/<user>/Mail I don't use Evolution or Mozilla Mail so I cannot comment on their mail settings. HTH -- Christopher Shanahan
On Saturday 04 June 2005 1:46 pm, Christopher Shanahan wrote:
On Saturday 04 June 2005 13:23, Jim Flanagan wrote:
Hi all,
I know it is recommended by many to always make a separate mount point for /home. However, I notice that in migrating from suse 8.2 to 9.3, the mail folders in kde have changed from /home/user/Mail to /home/user/.kde/share...
What mail client are you referring to?
I can only assume you're referring to kmail since you specified kde. If that's the case, then your statement is incorrect. Your mail folders are still /home/<user>/Mail
I don't use Evolution or Mozilla Mail so I cannot comment on their mail settings.
Hi guys. I am talking about Kmail here, default Suse install, sorry. I have two 9.3 boxes here, neither has /home/<user>/Mail. One user has /home/<user>/mail (not ~/Mail) with only "Trash" folder in it, but it is not populated. Other users don't even have this folder. Everything is in /home/<user>/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail, including the "working" trash folder. Not sure why, but that's where Suse/kde put them. I don't remember an install setting for this, nor have I found a kmail setting for it either. Still wondering how using the old home/~/Mail folder would work here. Jim Flanagan linuxjim at jjfiii dot com
On Saturday 04 June 2005 04:18 pm, Jim Flanagan wrote:
not populated. Other users don't even have this folder. Everything is in /home/<user>/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail, including the "working" trash folder.
Not sure why, but that's where Suse/kde put them. I don't remember an install setting for this, nor have I found a kmail setting for it either. Still wondering how using the old home/~/Mail folder would work here.
Jim, I had the same thing happen here. To use the old Mail stuff I simply placed it in the new mail - with the little m- directory. I at first, had tried to put the saved Mail directory in the original location but Kmail didnt find it. I have since updated to KDE 3.4.1 and it is still in the newer location. Richard
On Saturday 04 June 2005 4:49 pm, Richard Atcheson wrote:
On Saturday 04 June 2005 04:18 pm, Jim Flanagan wrote:
not populated. Other users don't even have this folder. Everything is in /home/<user>/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail, including the "working" trash folder.
Not sure why, but that's where Suse/kde put them. I don't remember an install setting for this, nor have I found a kmail setting for it either. Still wondering how using the old home/~/Mail folder would work here.
Jim, I had the same thing happen here. To use the old Mail stuff I simply placed it in the new mail - with the little m- directory. I at first, had tried to put the saved Mail directory in the original location but Kmail didnt find it. I have since updated to KDE 3.4.1 and it is still in the newer location. Richard
Thanks Richard. Jim Flanagan
On Saturday 04 June 2005 23:49, Richard Atcheson wrote:
Jim, I had the same thing happen here. To use the old Mail stuff I simply placed it in the new mail - with the little m- directory. I at first, had tried to put the saved Mail directory in the original location but Kmail didnt find it. I have since updated to KDE 3.4.1 and it is still in the newer location. Richard
If the $HOME/Mail folder exists when you first start kmail after the upgrade, it will be used. The kmailrc option is folders=$HOME/Mail If you don't, then the .kde/share/apps/kmail/mail folders will be created and used. You can change it after the fact, but I think you have to edit config files When I upgraded, I kept the home directory, Mail was there when I booted up 9.3, and it was used
On Saturday 04 June 2005 05:06 pm, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Saturday 04 June 2005 23:49, Richard Atcheson wrote:
Jim, I had the same thing happen here. To use the old Mail stuff I simply placed it in the new mail - with the little m- directory. I at first, had tried to put the saved Mail directory in the original location but Kmail didnt find it. I have since updated to KDE 3.4.1 and it is still in the newer location. Richard
If the $HOME/Mail folder exists when you first start kmail after the upgrade, it will be used. The kmailrc option is
folders=$HOME/Mail
If you don't, then the .kde/share/apps/kmail/mail folders will be created and used. You can change it after the fact, but I think you have to edit config files
When I upgraded, I kept the home directory, Mail was there when I booted up 9.3, and it was used
On Saturday 04 June 2005 05:06 pm, Anders Johansson wrote:
If the $HOME/Mail folder exists when you first start kmail after the upgrade, it will be used. The kmailrc option is
folders=$HOME/Mail
If you don't, then the .kde/share/apps/kmail/mail folders will be created and used. You can change it after the fact, but I think you have to edit config files
When I upgraded, I kept the home directory, Mail was there when I booted up 9.3, and it was used
OOps, I goofed and sent a blank reply, Sorry. Just wanted to thank Anders for his usual informative response. Now I know how to make sure all my machines are the same. Thanks, Richard
On Saturday 04 June 2005 6:18 pm, Richard Atcheson wrote:
On Saturday 04 June 2005 05:06 pm, Anders Johansson wrote:
If the $HOME/Mail folder exists when you first start kmail after the upgrade, it will be used. The kmailrc option is
folders=$HOME/Mail
If you don't, then the .kde/share/apps/kmail/mail folders will be created and used. You can change it after the fact, but I think you have to edit config files
When I upgraded, I kept the home directory, Mail was there when I booted up 9.3, and it was used
OOps, I goofed and sent a blank reply, Sorry. Just wanted to thank Anders for his usual informative response. Now I know how to make sure all my machines are the same.
Indeed, many thanks as usual to Anders, and you too Richard. I was wondering, is this change a new trend or standard in Suse and/or linux? Why would they move away from a standard non-hidden $home/Mail directory? Jim Flanagan
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